INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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of State officers, 448 ; do. of members of the Legislature, 

 444. 



Insectivorous Plants. Long observed, 444 ; the best known 

 of the plants, 444; observers and their observations, 444; 

 do. of Francis Darwin, 444 ; his experiments, 444 ; feed- 

 ing and starving plants, 444 ; experiments of Reiss, Kel- 

 lerman, and Von Raumer, 444. 



Internal Revenue Taxation, receipts of, 828. 



International Copyright treaties in Europe, 226. 



Iowa. Meeting of the Legislature, 445 ; law to control rail- 

 ways, 445 ; its constitutionality affirmed, 445 ; principle 

 of the control of all corporations based on a natural law, 

 445 ; different opinions in regard to the law, 445 ; election 

 of Senator in Congress, 445 ; resolutions in the House 

 relating to financial questions, 445 ; majority report on 

 them, 445 ; amendments, 445 ; substitute adopted, 446 ; 

 bill to restore capital punishment before the Senate, 446 ; 

 its discussion and passage, 446 ; passed by the House, 

 446 ; bill to allow defendants in criminal actions to be- 

 come witnesses, 446 ; passed, 446 ; Commissioners of 

 Immigration, 446 ; jury trials with less than twelve, 446 ; 

 good conduct a source of diminution of sentence, 446 ; 

 taxation of telegraph lines, 446 ; dissatisfaction with the 

 operation of the railroad tariff, 446 ; manner in which 

 the law operates, 447 ; bill for the appointment of Eailroad 

 Commissioners passed, 447 ; three Commissioners to be 

 appointed, 447 ; their powers and duties, 447 ; tariff act 

 repealed, 447 ; provision relative to railroad charges, 447 ; 

 towns permitted to vote aid, 447 ; amendment to the 

 constitution permitting women to vote and hold office 

 passed, 447 ; State Convention of county supervisors, 

 447 ; their recommendations and resolutions, 447, 448 ; 

 abolition of the grand jury proposed, 448 ; or left to the 

 Legislature, 448 ; temperance discussion, 448 ; public ex- 

 pense of the use of intoxicating liquors, 448 ; memorial 

 to the Legislature, 448 ; amount of public land approved 

 and certified to Iowa, 448 ; live stock assessed in the State 

 for eleven years, 449 ; gradual decrease in value per 

 head, 449 ; loss by hog cholera, 449 ; swine assessed for 

 1878, 449 ; amount of loss, 449 ; number of sheep, 449 ; 

 crop of oats, 449 ; crop of barley and value, 449 ; rye and 

 value, 449 ; flax and value, 449 ; area sown in wheat, 



449 ; value of the crop, 449 ; short-horned cattle, 449 ; 

 details of railroads, 449 ; new State Capitol, 450 ; expendi- 

 ture, 450 ; convention to organize a State Liberal League, 



450 ; resolutions, 450 ; State Convention of Nationals, 

 450 ; nominations and resolutions, 450 ; Democratic State 

 Convention, 451 ; nominations and resolutions, 451 ; Re- 

 publican State Convention, 451 ; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 451 ; State election, 453 ; dispute as to the time for 

 the election of Congressmen, 453 ; decision of the Gov- 

 ernor, 453 ; result of the election for Congressmen, 453 ; 

 do. for State officers, 453 ; do. for members of the Legis- 

 lature, 454. 



Iron Industry. Enlargement of its means and extraordi- 

 nary demand, 126 ; total product for eleven years, 126 ; 

 total product of pig, 127; production of iron rails, 127; 

 do. of Bessemer steel, 128. 



Irrigation. System of, for California, 72 ; do. in Colorado, 

 111. 



Italy. King and family, 454 ; territorial divisions, area, and 

 population, 454; sources of revenue, 454 ; expenditures, 

 454 ; total debt, 454 ; value of different articles of export 

 am* import, 454 ; movement of special foreign trade, 454; 

 commercial value of imports and exports, 455 ; movement 

 of shipping, 455 ; strength of the Italian army, 455 ; force 

 of the navy, 455; railroads in operation, 455; length of 

 telegraphs, 455; death of Victor Emanuel, 456; oath ad- 

 ministered to the new King, 456 ; his speech, 456; speech 

 on opening the Chambers, 456 ; reforms proposed, 456 ; 



position of the ministry, 450 ; new Cabinet formed, 4. r >0; 

 reported to Parliament, and statement of pollry, 450; 

 measures before Parliament, 457 ; war estimates, 457 ; 

 construction of now railways, 457 ; the financial utatc- 

 iiH'iit presented, 457 ; resignations of ministers, 457 ; new 

 appointments. 457 ; attempted assassination of the King, 

 458; the Baasanti clubs, 458;Jdiity of tho Government, 

 458; new Cabinet, 458 ; tho attack on the King, 48 ; agi- 

 tation caused by the Berlin Congress, 468 ; demonstra- 

 tion against the residence of the Austrian consul, 458; 

 reparation made, 458. 



Ivory, Artificial. Numerous patents granted, 458 ; their 

 compositions, 459 ; invention of Hyatt, 459 ; a process 

 and apparatus for manufacturing celluloid, 4S9 ; proper- 

 ties of the substance, 459 ; employment in the industrial 

 arts, 459. 



Jdbloclikoff' '* electric candle, form of, 278. 



Japan. The sovereign and departments of the administra- 

 tion, 460; area of the several islands and population, 400; 

 receipts and expenditures, 460 ; public debt, 460 ; strength 

 of the army, 461 ; the naval force, 461 ; imports and ex- 

 ports, 461 ; at the different ports, 461 ; trade of foreign 

 countries with Japan, 461 ; length of railroads, 461 ; 

 postal service, 461 ; newspapers, 461 ; end of the civil 

 war, 461 ; unsatisfactory condition of affairs, 461 ; effects 

 of the revolution, 461 ; revision of treaties, 461 ; protec- 

 tive tariff, 461 ; provisional loan, 461 ; assembly of pro- 

 vincial governors, 462 ; modifications of the press laws, 

 462; assassination of the Minister of the Interior, 462; 

 manner of proceeding, 462 ; punishment of the assassins, 

 462; mutiny of soldiers, 462 ; proceedings. 462 ; singular 

 disturbance in Yokohama, 462 ; discontent of the dis- 

 banded Samurai, 462 ; Japanese department at the Paris 

 Exhibition, 468 ; native editions of the Bible, 463 ; other 

 publications, 463. 



Java, an island, its railroads and telegraphs, 597. 



Jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River, 502. 



Kansas. The great prosperity of the State, 463; increase of 

 population, 468; receipts of the Treasury, 468 ; amount 

 of taxes collected, 464 ; rate of taxation, 464 ; valuation of 

 property, 464; sources of revenue, 464 ; total State debt, 

 464 ; prisoners in the Penitentiary, 464 ; expenditure, 

 464 ; Asylum for the Blind, 464 ; Deaf and Dumb Insti- 

 tution, 464; Insane Asylums, 464; reports of State Board 

 of Agriculture, 464; one of the first wheat-growing States, 

 464 ; Fish Commission, 465 ; length of railroads, 465 ; claim 

 against the United States, 465 ; cultivated acreage of the 

 State, 465 ; acreage, product and value of the five princi- 

 pal crops in the counties on Kansas River, 465 ; their com- 

 bined product, 465 ; amount and proportion of cultivated 

 and uncultivated land in these counties, 465; stock of 

 horses, mules, and asses, 465; milch cows, 465; increase 

 and decrease of other cattle, 466 ; amount of bonded and 

 floating debt of cities, counties, townships, and school dis- 

 tricts, 466 ; proceedings in court by bondholders against 

 officials of Leavenworth City and County and others, 

 466; a case of quo warranto to test the title to a seat in 

 the Legislature, 466 ; opinion of the Court, 466 ; Republi- 

 can State Convention, 466 ; nominations and resolutions, 

 466; Democratic State Convention, 467 ; nominations and m 

 resolutions, 467; National Labor candidates, 463; d 

 tion of State officers, 468; do. of members of Congrew, 

 468 ; do. of members of the Stole LegiaWS 4* 



